Public preference of farming systems is a critical component of social sustainability. Recent research has been conducted on public attitudes to various aspects of dairy farming. However, youth perspectives in particular have been underexplored. The objective of this study was to understand preferences of dairy calf housing options among youth. Participants 5 – 17 years of age (n = 463) were invited to complete a 21-item survey at the Minnesota State Fair (St. Paul, MN) in summer 2018. The survey was administered via Qualtrics using iPads and, in addition to collecting demographics, presented 3 images of calf housing options (individual, pair, or group) and asked participants to select their preferred option. Most participants (median age = 11 yr) were female (61%), urban residents (59%), owned a pet (90%), and did not have prior experience handling agricultural animals (63%) but had visited a farm in the past (82%). Data were analyzed using PROC GLIMMIX of SAS, and multinomial models were built with housing option as the dependent variable. Overall, group housing was overwhelmingly preferred (mean ± SE; 81.1 ± 3.0%), followed by pair (10.4 ± 2.5%) and individual housing (8.5 ± 1.8%). Housing preference was not associated with age, gender, pet ownership, or prior visits to a farm. However, rural youth more frequently preferred individual housing compared with urban youth (14.0 ± 4.5% vs. 5.0 ± 1.3%, respectively, P < 0.05). These findings suggest that youth from urban backgrounds may be less accepting of individual housing systems for dairy calves and that group housing is preferred by majority of survey participants. Further qualitative analysis will be used to identify reasons underlying youth preferences of calf housing options.